Robert Francis Prevost of the US becomes pope

Mwanzo Editor
May 8, 2025
8:29 pm

Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced.

A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church’s 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV.

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